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Mansfield’s Chad Whitener signs with California after some brief wavering

Mansfield linebacker Chad Whitener committed to California in May and signed with the Pac-12 school on Wednesday. But he said that after coach Jeff Tedford was relieved of his duties in November that he briefly started considering other schools.

“When we didn’t have a head coach, I started trying to get in contact with TCU and other schools around here just in case,” he said.

That ended, though, when Cal hired Sonny Dykes to be its head coach in early December. “Once I talked to Coach Dykes, I was solid again to them,” the 6-1, 235-pound senior said.